A useful possession should fit the person who must manage it afterward.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Ownership always includes upkeep, and upkeep can be handed on. A boat, a large house, a collection, a garden that needs a full weekend a month: each is a gift and an obligation at once, and the second half tends to land on whoever comes next. What is a pleasure for one person can be a burden for another with different time, health or interest.

If you are holding something on behalf of the future, ask the future person what they would actually want. If you have inherited something that does not fit your life, letting it go is not disloyalty to anyone.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Who ends up maintaining the things you bring into your home?

MORE IN CHOICE & CONSEQUENCE

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.